Re: System crawls at unpredictable times

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:03:20 -0700

Go to Scheduled Tasks. in Control Panel.
>From there you can schedule.

Also perform the steps on this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm 

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Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
"howldog" <lifeisgood@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
>
> New to XP after being on 98 and ME for years.
>
> At various times of the working day, for unknown reasons, my XP
> computer (a compaq presario with XP home edition) will, for some
> reason, act lethargic beyond belief.
>
> Something system-wise has kicked in, and I cant tell what it is.
>
> I'm wondering if it is defragging, altho no window ever appears. I've
> used the task manager but cannot tell from the list of encrypted
> processes, what is causing the slow-down.
>
> It also could be Norton systemworks doing something.
>
> In 98 and XP, I could specify at what intervals, if any, i wanted the
> machine to defrag, and i set it for overnight. I cannot find that on
> XP. It seems to do its maintenance work whenever it wants.
>
> Is there a way to force the system to do scandisc and defrag overnight
> instead of during the day?
>
> thank you

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